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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 28m

We should regard online content these days with the same sort of critical eye as the articles we read: who made this? Where did it come from? Does the account have a motive for pushing this narrative? Is there obvious and trustworthy sourcing? & yes, the visual stuff that help us decide if its fake

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 27m

God, common human decency can take us so far.

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 28m

I follow too many people, but after seeing this I wondered why I am waiting to see your reposts. It’s so affirming to see someone, anyone, speaking plainly about our beloveds on the streets. Hearing Zohran talk about Sylvia and Marsha like this made me tear up for real.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 1h

I enjoyed this. Might try it.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

You too can learn how to do this! I discuss my journey into astrophotography here:

news.chanda.science/archive/its-...

🔭📷🧪

It's Andromeda Season!

Now is the time to go outside at night and look at our next door neighbor. It's not creepy!

news.chanda.science

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 12h

Mad moon appearing

Sky pic. Odd lighting. The moon coming over the roof and through the clouds.

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 13h

Our farm in the city

The city scape with corn stalks and banana trees in the foreground.

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 13h

Element of surprise.

ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 13h

I love the frogs, but maybe each city needs a few of its own animal activists—like I wouldn’t mind seeing a bunch of lizards or seagulls or singing flowers or whatever.

ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 13h

I read this as a blunt

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 13h

The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant personhood rights to a river.

“The river is my grandfather.” @debkrol.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river

The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon give their eponymous river personhood status, following moves by other tribes and Indigenous peoples.

www.azcentral.com

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 13h

I have totally considered this

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 13h

I mean maybe everyone just repeatedly taking short term memory loss, brain fog and other blows to their brains, nervous and circulatory systems over the last five years helped create the conditions for the fascist total unreality

ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 15h

Froggie went a-courting…idk but I like the Springsteen version.

Froggie Went a Courtin'

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen - Topic

m.youtube.com

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 15h

After we got home from the beach, I slept so hard that when I woke up I wondered why the neighbor was baking cakes in the middle of the night.

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 15h

Trees are good people.

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 15h

Can’t really say too much about it, but this has been the wackiest week.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 23h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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guerin @ontopoetic.earth · 17h

As someone who was at one time homeless I never understood the weight of these systems we live under more than then and know my political orientation started and ends there.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 17h

I hardly ever ask you to read me.

ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 1d

Repost from Sunshine/Noir II, 2015. I’m still writing.

A Drought is Not a Desert: Landscapes of Denial and Other Speculative Fictions

A Text by Tamara Johnson in "Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana (City Works Press, 2015)

thejumpingoffplace.substack.com

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 19h

Beach, flowers.

ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 1d

Bittersweet is the best sweet. No question.

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 1d

Clouds

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · Mar 21

The person who punched Richard Spencer and instantly made him a meme never got caught. Just threw one punch and skipped off into immortality. I think about that a lot.

Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · Mar 21

one of the most important things to learn, if you're out there doing things:

you don't get to talk about it.

you don't get to brag about it, you don't get to tell your friends, you don't get drinks bought for you in the bar off the story.

it's *always* shut the fuck up friday

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 1d

At the gallery

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 1d

Repost from Sunshine/Noir II, 2015. I’m still writing.

A Drought is Not a Desert: Landscapes of Denial and Other Speculative Fictions

A Text by Tamara Johnson in "Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana (City Works Press, 2015)

thejumpingoffplace.substack.com